Another Shot At The Hodgepodge

It's been quite a while since I joined in on the Wednesday Hodgepodge questions that Joyce hosts every week at her blog From This Side of the Pond. Click on over there to join in and read other blogger's answers.

1. What reveals more about a woman-her refrigerator or her purse? 

The refrigerator is for the whole family, right? So a purse would tell more about a woman, right?
Oh, who am I kidding? A mom's purse ends up carrying things for everyone in her family. :) I learned that on our honeymoon when I ended up putting several things in my purse for my Brand-New Hubby. I've varied in my philosophy of purse sizes over the years. After I stopped dragging around a diaper bag, I made sure my purse was big enough for a little fold-up potty seat and some extra training pants. :) Then there were the years of wanting a purse as tiny as I could get it with just the bare essentials. Now? Now I like a big purse so I can throw in a book or a magazine for those I Never Know When I Might Want To Have Something To Read moments.

2. When was the last time you went to the zoo? Where? What's your favorite zoo animal? 

I think it was when we lived in Singapore. We went several times with the kids. I was fascinated with the cooling huts throughout the zoo. They were little buildings that had air-conditioning in them. A necessary item when you are 80 or so miles north of the equator, in my opinion. The zoo had a neat thing called a Night Safari. We'd take company to see that since it was a pretty unique thing and it wasn't as hot at night. You got to see the animals that were more active at night.
I remember going with my daughter's 3rd grade class on a field trip to the zoo. I had a group of  3 or 4 kids I was supervising, only one of whom was a boy. When we came to the Reptile House I took a vote to see who want to go in. Only the boy raised his hand so we passed on that one, of course! That little boy wasn't very happy with me. (...and was a little annoyed when he ended up in my group again on a different field trip.)
I found a place I liked to takes walks along a reservoir that was near the Singapore Zoo. I could sometimes hear the lions roar. That was pretty awesome.
I don't know if I have one specific favorite zoo animal. I love seeing how incredibly creative The Creator is. God is amazing.
You know, now that I think a bit more, (and to make this possibly the longest answer ever) I think the last zoo I went to was in San Diego 6 years ago. And hands down, my favorite animal there was the Panda Bear.
(Wow. That would have been such a short answer and just not as interesting.)

3. What social issue fires you up?

When the Church tries to fit into the World's viewpoint and make the social issues of the World acceptable in the church. Makes me sad and sick to my stomach. I cannot imagine how it grieves God.

4. Are you a coupon clipper? If so, are you extreme? 

I used to. My mother-in-law would even give me the coupons from her newspaper. Then we moved to Singapore and coupons did not exist and I quit paying attention to prices. When we moved back to the US, I tried the whole coupon thing again. But then, there were years we didn't get a newspaper. Recently, I've tried to used them a bit more. But frankly, I don't use a lot of the items there are coupons for. I know there are more sources for coupons than the newspaper (yes, Jenny, I know...), but I guess I'm not willing to put the work into it. 

Wow. That was a long answer for what I could have said in one: Kinda.

5. What is one of your favorite souvenirs brought back from your travels? 

Really? Only ONE? I could photograph most of the things in our house as things brought back from our travels. One thing I did well when we lived in Singapore and traveled in that part of the world was shop. These elephants were bought in Singapore at a place we lovingly called The Pottery Jungle. It wasn't the actual name of the place, but seeing as it sold lots of ceramic pottery and was kinda in the jungle, us Expats chose to call it that.

If you click here, here, here and here you can look around the house and there is something in every room we bought in our travels.

6. Lemon meringue or key lime? 

Yes, please! I love both! Lemon is a really close second to chocolate for me.

7. What is the most beautiful word you know in any language?

Forgiven.

8. Insert your own random thought here. 

Time for a really, really random video. Since I've talked about living in Singapore several times in this post, I thought I would include a video from one of the local-flavored sit-coms that we enjoyed while we lived there. I will admit when we first lived there we didn't understand the jokes or the accents very well, but eventually we got to where we couldn't wait for our weekly viewing, and laughed at the jokes. Sorry for the people who will watch this and don't understand. (I know the hubby and my kids will get a kick out of it...)